New Jewish Books
Building a Soviet Jewish Homeland in Siberia Russian Shorts Gennady Estraikh’s book explores the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the...
Holocaust Rescue and Resistance As we approach the end of the ‘era of the witness’, given the passing on of the generation of Holocaust survivors, Claude Lanzmann’s archive of 220 hours of footage excluded...
Editors: Phyllis Lassner, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz Series Editor: Kitty Millet Each scholar working in the field of Holocaust literature and representation has a story to tell. Not only the scholarly story of the work...
Studies in Exercise and Exemplarity Series Editors: Catherine Hezser,Sean A. Adams Moving away from focusing on wisdom as a literary genre, this book delves into the lived, embodied and formative dimensions of wisdom as...
The Reich’s Retailer From the emergence of department stores in the late 19th century to the financial disasters of the years following the end of World War I, the history of large-scale retailing in...
Perspectives on Shame and on the Holocaust from Stutthof Within the vast network of Nazi camps, Stutthof may be the least known beyond Poland. This book is the first scholarly publication in English to...
Writing and Rewriting the Past after 1989 In the early years of the 21st century it appeared that the memory of the Holocaust was secure in Western Europe; that, in order to gain entry...
South African artist Irma Stern (1894–1966) is one of the nation’s most enigmatic modern figures. Stern held conservative political positions on race even as her subjects openly challenged racism and later the apartheid regime....
The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial was a milestone event in West German history. Between 1963 and 1965, twenty-two former Auschwitz personnel were tried in Frankfurt am Main. It was a trial that saw the engagement...
Helping students navigate a full range of texts, concepts and debates, this is a comprehensive introduction to the vast and emotionally charged field of Holocaust Literature from 1933 to the present. Holocaust Literature: An...
